Word: viscera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass of tumor filled a sizable wash tub, close by the rude table on which the patient lay in her poor dwelling. The tapping of the sacculi and the bleeding caused considerable soiling of the abdominal contents, and water was used freely from a pitcher to cleanse the abdominal viscera. After all was over, we sent across the street for the steelyards belonging to a butcher in the Kensington market [Philadelphia]. The whole multilocular cystic mass with the accumulated fluids tipped the scales at 132 pounds. As soon as the weighing was completed, a nurse dumped everything down a privy...
After he had made his cat comfortable on its back and insensitive to pain, he carefully slit open its torso to expose the viscera. Next he carefully cut practically every sympathetic nerve in the cat's body. Particularly, he cut the nerves running to the heart and every organ known to produce a hormone - the thyroids, parathyroids, thymus, duodenum, liver, pancreas, adrenals, pineal gland, pituitary body, chorioid plexus and sexual organs...
...which might obscure his research, he shook the cat's forepaws. Nothing happened. He shook its head. Nothing happened. He shook the hind quarters. At that the heart, whose nerves had been disconnected, started beating faster. He pinched the veins and arteries connecting the heart and the abdominal viscera he was watching. That is, with nerve or telegraph system cut off, he now dammed the blood stream through which a possible hormone might float. The cat's heart now returned to normal. Professor Cannon, wriggling the cat's hind part, released the pinched veins and arteries...
...lung had collapsed. But her heart was beating strongly. She said she felt no pain. There was no possible hope of saving her. So the doctors, mindful of the professional value of an exposed heart action, dragged in a moving picture camera, photographed the puzzled little girl's viscera the 14 hours she continued to live...